The black-bone chicken soup that we often drink in restaurants is the black-bone chicken that can be used for both food and medicine. There are many aliases for black-bone chicken, such as black-bone chicken, bamboo-shredded chicken, Taihe chicken, Wushan chicken, medicated chicken, wool chicken, hairy chicken, loose-haired chicken, black-footed chicken, trousers chicken, baifeng chicken, congguan chicken, etc., so in mainland China,
This kind of chicken has been recorded in ancient books for a long time. It has the characteristics of purple crown, green ears, black tongue, white silk feather, double tassels, five claws, hairy feet, black skin and black meat. It originated in Wushan, Taihe, Jiangxi Province, and is now raised in many places.
The famous Chinese medicine "Wuji Baifeng Pill" is made from this kind of chicken. This kind of chicken was once crowned as an ornamental chicken at the World Expo.
In 1979, at the foot of Dalong Mountain in Yunxian County, Hubei Province, there was a chicken farm called Jianyao Chicken Farm. They successfully raised "Siwu Chicken", whose skin, meat, bones and internal organs were all black, and it was used to stew soup, but it had the same efficacy as black bone.
In addition, a kind of "Jiangshan Baiyu Black-bone Chicken" with white feather, black beak, black tongue, black skin and black bones is also bred in Jiangshan rural areas of Zhejiang Province. According to the research of people with heart, this kind of chicken has a history of more than 1,5 years.
As for the chicken for laying eggs, there are Xianju chickens with an annual output of more than 2 eggs, which originated in Xianju, Zhejiang Province. They can lay eggs as early as five months, and the eggshells are close to brown.
There is also Yuanbao chicken, with an annual output of 15 to 25, which was cultivated by Rongcheng people east of Yantai, Shandong.
Among the chickens that can be used for both meat and eggs, the most famous one is Langshan Chicken, which is also called Chahe Chicken and Matang Black Chicken. It is native to Nantong and Rudong, Jiangsu Province, and its feathers are black. The adult cock weighs four kilograms and the hen weighs three kilograms, and it can lay an average of 17 eggs every year. The eggshell is dark brown and the meat is very tender.
Australia's Australian black chicken is bred with this kind of chicken as the original species.